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...Ravi Ahuja Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Capital at Sea, Shaitan Below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits of Experience RaviAhuja "Every man's nose was inches away from a solid barrier: either the ceiling or an arse; "squirming like...

...Kathleen Davis Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Cross-Dressing the Rose: Sly Allegory in Sea ofPoppies Kathleen Davis Names continually slip their moorings in the watery world ofSea ofPoppies. Deeti, the first ofthe main characters we meet, experiences rebirth on the Ganges...

...Antoinette Burton Copyright © 2012 University of Illinois Press 2012 Roundtable: Amitav Ghosh's Sea ofPoppies Amitav Ghosh's World Histories from Below Antoinette Burton New modalities are definitely coming to the fore. -Baboo Nob Kissin, Sea ofPoppies (2008) [It] is not a story with a happy...

... in the Islamic Context Mohamed Nachi 1 24 52 ROUNDTABLE: AMITAV GHOSH'S SEA OF POPPIES Amitav Ghosh's World History from Below Antoinette Burton Capital at Sea, Shaitan below Decks? A Note on Global Narratives, Narrow Spaces, and the Limits ofExperience Ravi Ahuja Cross-Dressing the Rose: Sly Allegory in Sea...

... South, with Iran casting a long shadow over the Persian Gulf. In this part of the Indian Ocean, the Al Imran was a small boat swept up in currents of a geopolitical reordering in which Iran, not a US ally like the UAE, was a dominating force, expanding its power at sea even during a pandemic. Caught...

... such as Amitav Ghosh ( Flood ; River ; Sea ), M. G. Vassanji ( Gunny Sack ; Secrets ; Vikram Lall ), Abdulrazak Gurnah ( Admiring ; Sea ; Desertion ; Paradise ), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o ( Wizard ), Ananda Devi ( Eve ), Peter Nazareth ( General ), Sophia Mustafa ( Shadow ), Meena...

...Henning Trüper Copyright © 2019 University of Illinois Press 2019 Aphrodite Stillborn: Heinrich Heine, Humanitarian Imperatives, and the Dead ofShipwreck Henning Triiper I. When hespentthesummer of1833in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Heinrich Heinewit­ nessed a disaster at sea, the wreck oftheAmphitrite...

..., and Mediterranean Seas. The Ottoman central government was particularly invested in minimizing the risk of epidemics in the imperial capital and frequently prevented foreign pilgrims from disembarking in Istanbul, where many travelers hoped to see the sultan-caliph, visit shrines, and connect with members...

... Atlantic as already 19 2 H I S T O RY ofthe P R E S E N T fraught, rendered impossible in the absence of landmarks or sights from which one might obtain bearings. For poet Derek Walcott, the sea destroys the evidence of the past, drowning the hideous violence of the Middle Passage-its "shit and moaning...

... into the sea. Accompanied by the narrator, the woman brings the chicken carcasses to an old sailor living in a small hut near the sea with his family. The initiate pays the man to dispose of the carcasses in a “deep section” of the sea where they would not be found ( Zayn al-Din 20 ). The narrator is horrified...

..., these projects sound eerily familiar, as they mirror the scientific efforts to understand nu­ clear effects on land, sea, ice, and air during the long Cold War. Each nuclear detonationwas a form ofgeoengineering in its own right, connected both to an expanding military imaginary and to environmental problems...

..., and notwithstanding the increasing secularization ofnatural legal thought, early modern natural legal theorists continued to refer to the world, the house ofreason, as larger than the surface ofthe earth. Consider Hugo Grotius's writings in The Free Sea (1609) . There, too, ius gentium was locatable on the earth...

... as himself;' dwelled in a cave by the sea, where their family was "begotten in incest;' entirely secluded from society.6 The family preyed on passersby, whom they assailed on the road outside their cave, which was sufficiently far enough from any towns so as not to be easily known, but close enough to ensure...

... in that light Russia’s recent moves into Crimea or China’s occupation of islands in the South China Sea, over which the Philippines and Vietnam have claimed sovereignty: are these not imperial formations today, though we tend not to think of them in that way? And what about new imperial formations that may...

... they transported me across sat sagor ar tero nodi (seven seas and thirteen rivers) at a time when travel had started to become a distant memory. One image stands out ( fig. 1 ). It’s crowded. Many bodies and faces. According to the press’s design team, it wasn’t an ideal image for reproduction, but I...

... in 1902. Linking the Bóhǎi Sea with the Grand Canal, Tianjin was split up between competing colonial powers, becoming a “hypercolony” (Rogaski). The immense level of imperial competition in Tianjin meant that Habsburg colonial officials were constantly confronted with other powers, both as competitors...

... into the sea pose questions critical to the archive and to the history ofthe present? How might I pronounce their deaths without ever being able to say their names?3 In "Venus in Two Acts;' I endeavored to witness the transit of life and death shared by two girls, to reckon with the violence that the law...

... argues, is precisely to forget their existence, to dispense with their right to care, access, and reparation. Nidhi Mahajan’s “Locked up in Lockdown: Patronage in a Time of Pandemic in the Indian Ocean” carries Banerjee’s observations (as it were) to sea. Building on extended fieldwork on migration...

... . Beckles Hilary . “ From Land to Sea: Runaway Barbados Slaves and Servants, 1630–1700 .” Slavery and Abolition 6 , no. 3 ( 1985 ): 79 – 94 . Bendiner Elmer . “ Outside the Kingdom of the Middle Class .” Nation , January 2, 1967 , 22 – 23 . Benhabib Seyla . The Rights...

... hand, and the Red Sea and the Indian subcontinent, on the other. The gulf merchants who traded in South Asia or in other Arab countries were exposed to nationalist movements and intellectual and literary debates. Their exposure to modern education drew their attention to its absence at home ( Steinberg...